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单词 skiagrapher
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skiagrapher

/skʌɪˈaɡrəfə/
(also sciographer, skiographer, sciagrapher)
noun
1A person skilled at making sundials and in the art of dialling.
2 Art. An artist skilled at using shading to convey perspective.
3 Medicine. A person skilled in the use of X-rays; = radiographer. Now chiefly historical.

Origin

Late 17th century; earliest use found in William Leybourn (1626–1716). From ancient Greek σκιά shadow + -grapher, after skiagraphy and Hellenistic Greek σκιαγράϕος (later σκιογράϕος, attested in variant readings in the Septuagint) perspective-painter, scene-painter.

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